Johanna Bruckner: Molecular Sex
In her work Molecular Sex, Bruckner analyses how technology and the internet have affected our relationships and love life. The piece consists to performance and animations that deal with love in the age of online dating and apps like Tinder, in which sexual gratification is a few swipes away. Her work walks the line of being a celebration and a critique and uses abstract methods to discuss the emotions and nature of love online and how it is unique. She does her performances in front of her animations, adding another layer to her work. Her costume, almost that of a cyber jellyfish, highlights the strangeness of this phenomenon. Her interactions with others in similar costumes combined with the videos creates the sense she is traversing a digital landscape on foot as opposed to clicking through it passively as one tends to.
Johanna Bruckner: Brittle Stars
In her work Brittle Stars, Johanna Bruckner uses physical movement to develop a complex artistic language that explores possible versions of our future in which economic and affective aspects are tightly interwoven. The series is defined by the micro and macro structures of the indeterminate power of love. Bruckner aesthetically transforms the question of how we might understand exchange as a complex movement in order to establish new structural transformations as queer ecologies. The soundtrack that accompanies the movement-based performances in the video work also echoes these reflections.
Bruckner’s works link individual emotional states to structural examinations of how bodies and emotions are increasingly honed in upon and exploited in the digitalised world. Her exhibition at Q18 explores the emotive zones we might produce with new technologies in the future and how we might redistribute their intrinsic value in new ways. Bruckner’s process-oriented artistic works create poetic yet also theoretically grounded pictorial worlds of a fictive and narrative nature that prompt the viewer to reflect both on an emotional and a cognitive level
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